The TCamRemote component for Delphi and ActiveX can be used to interface and remotely handle Canon PowerShot and EOS digital cameras.

Highlights

take pictures remotely and receive the picture to the computer,
handle the remote viewfinder,
set and get remote parameters (e.g. ISO and Zoom),
list, get and delete pictures stored in the camera,
handle multiple cameras.
develop RAW-pictures with development parameters (e.g. change whitebalance) to 8/16 bits Tiffs or JPEG using ICC profiles.

Aquaforest's OCR SDK for .NET enables developers to directly make use of the Aquaforest OCR engine in their own applications and create searchable PDFs, RTFs, text files, etc. from Image-PDFs, TIFFs and bitmaps.

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Helicon Focus is a program that creates one perfectly focused image from several partially focused images. The program is designed for optic microscope image processing to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem. Helicon Focus is a tool that will allow you to create and edit images. Heliconfocus can also be used in macrophotography. The program can automatically adjust and resize images to combine the perfectly focused image.